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Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

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Ronald Reagan
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 6
Died: 2004
Died: June 5
40Th U.S. President
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There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.
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God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the taking of innocent life. We expect Him to protect us in a crisis, but turn away from Him too often in our day-to-day living. I wonder if He isn't waiting for us to wake up.
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Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.
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To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.
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Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
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To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
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If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
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Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.
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One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.
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One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
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There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
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I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.
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America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.
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There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.
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